O Sovereign LORD, remember me. Oh God, please strengthen me just once more. (The cry of Samson) Judges 16:28
There is a persona that weakness is the worst thing that can ever happen to a human being. Weakness is man’s worst enemy. Most man in some point of their childhood was told to “man up”. For woman we were told to hide our emotions. In society weakness is sign of failure. But to God weakness is you giving up, letting go and letting Him take control.
I do not understand why weakness is a bad thing. God never used people who had it all together. Moses had a stutter, Jonah was stubborn and said no to God, Samson was arrogant, David was an adulterer, Peter was conceited and betrayed Christ, and Paul was often consumed with self-importance.
My teammate Amanda is this beautiful and amazing young woman in which God breaking and molding her into His likeness. God is stripping away all that she treasures and holds unto. He wants to be the centerfold of her life.
The amazing thing is that this month Amanda has been given the opportunity to be a leader and to lead the woman of Citizens of Hope. Amanda feels she is weak and completely broken but I am seeing a woman of God rising out of ashes and standing strong in her weakness and finding confidence and strength in her God.
There’s the difference; we all have human frailty and we all the capacity to go on in life in our own strength but will you make it anywhere? When you walk with Christ you move forward when you are weak. In Isaiah 40:29-31 says, “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
In weakness there is POWER that none can contain or fathom. In 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 Paul writes, “But he said to me My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Prayer for the faint
Jesus I feel weak and tired and I have nothing left in my own will and strength to keep going. I am on empty right now and I am asking for your Holy Spirit to fill me and help me in my weakness (Romans 8:26) I want to be strong in you and cannot be until I am humble and say that I am weak. So here I am; use me despite my frailty Lord Jesus. I am yours completely.
